Crossing North

How did so many Indigenous Sámi artifacts end up in private collections and museums outside of Sápmi? And why were collectors only interested in certain types of objects? American non-fiction writer, journalist, editor, and translator Barbara Sjoholm discusses the history of ethnographic collections and the future of cultural repatriation in her latest book, From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture. *** This episode was written, edited, and produced by Colin Gioia Connors. Special thanks to Amy Swanson King. *** Transcript available at https://scandinavian.washington.edu/crossing-north-28-repatriation-air *** Find Barbara Sjoholm's books published by the University of Minnesota Press and the University of Wisconsin Press: From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and returning Sámi Craft and Culture (2023); By the Fire: Sami Folktales and Legends (2019); Black Fox: A Life of Emilie Demant Hatt, Artist and Ethnographer (2017); With the Lapps in the High Mountains: A Woman Among the Sami,